June 2023: Stephen Holder is unwell at the moment and is not, at present, able to take any orders or add new stock to this website.

DUTCH EAST INDIES CENSORED RED CROSS ENVELOPE 1940

£50.00

Description

lightweight airmail envelope inscribed ‘NED.-IND, ROODE KRUIS BATAVIA’ in red, franked with Dutch E.I. Wilhelmina 35c violet cancelled Batavia 24 December 1940, to the Red Cross Geneva; MS ‘By KLM to Iraq’; Dutch censor label ‘Door Censuur Geofen’, sealed front and reverse with circular ‘Roode Kruis’ cachet in red; a spectacular Red Cross item before the WW2 Japanese Occupation

June 2023: Stephen Holder is unwell at the moment and is not, at present, able to take any orders or add new stock to this website